This would be a good setup if you were planning on adding more menu items later, such as About or Settings or whatever.
On Apr 29, 2:22 am, asymmetric <[email protected]> wrote: > fadden, thanks for your reply. > > i'm curious as to why the android devs only used switch statements > then, if, as you say, an if statement would have been more efficient.. > hmm.. > > anyway, thank you! > asymmetric > > On Apr 28, 10:37 pm, fadden <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Apr 28, 4:33 am, asymmetric <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > by looking at the Notepad examples, i've noticed that the switch > > > statement is used even when there's only one case handled, as in: > > [...] > > > my question is, which is the most efficient statement? are there any > > > noticeable differences, enough to justify a refactoring? > > > For a single element, an "if" statement will be faster and more > > compact. > > > Unless you're calling it thousands of times per second, it's not going > > to make a difference in performance. It's probably using about 20 > > more bytes of Dalvik bytecode than the equivalent "if", so unless you > > have a bunch of them the size won't matter either. > > > Having all of the code look roughly the same may make it easier to > > understand and maintain. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
